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The JnlILLSBR6 VOL. X IIILLSBOIU), OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 7. lb. NO. 7. V EVENTS OF THE DAI Epitome of the Telegraphic News ot the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRKS An lutei-eitlng Collection of Item! Kroin tit Two llrinl.ilifre rreMiited In a Culiilenmxl Form. A case of leprosy hug boon discover ed lu California. The afllioted person in a girl of 16. Henry Gottharde von Treitsohke, the German historian, died tii Berlin, lie win born in 1841. Lord Dunraven denies tho report that Mr. H. MuCaluiout is now the sole owner of Valkyrie 111. 0. O. Brown has given np the fight and resigned his pastorate of the First Congregational ohuroh of San Franoisoo. A Uerman force defeated a large body of Hottentot rebela in Damarand, on April 6, killing forty-sit of them. The Uorumu loss whs small. Daring a fete at the town of Lei Sauior, France, an anarchist stabbed and killed the mayor. The motive for the crime was political hatred. A general strike on the lines of the Uniou Traction Company has been or dered to take effect at onoe. The na tiouul board has given its oonBent. John Ueiuetz, aged about 28, and James Davis, aged about 71, prospect ors, mining near Delta, Cal. , were drowned while crossing the 'river in a ! boat. A dispatch from Athena says another conflict baa occurred in the Haglon Vaaileon district of Crete. It is alleged twenty Turks were killed and thirty wounded. Altot Rieuff blew out the brains of .'. his wife, Julia, while she slept at his I '; side, in their room at the Pease lodg " ing-house, Seattle, and then killed him self. Jealousy was the cause. r Sir William Robinson, governor of Hong Kong, telegraphs that there haa fs ten seventy-five new oases of t buboine plague and seventy-five deaths from the disease in Hong Kong the past week. Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, while out slumming in . ' Mew York, was arrested and taken to . the Elizabeth-street police station. Bail was fixed at (1,000, which was .- furnished by Steve Brodie. . ; - - A .Pretoria, South Afrioa, dispatch says': The sentences of death imposed upon John Hays Hammond, the American engineer, Colonel Franois Rnodes, brother of the former premier of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, presi dent ot the chamber of mines, Johan nesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor of Country Life, of Johannesburg, have been eommuted. The announcement is made that M. Meline had succeeded in forming his cabinet as follows: M. Meline, pre mier and minister of agrioulture; M. Barthou, minister of foreign affairs, M. Coohery, fluanoe; M. Lebon, colo nies; M. Valle, oommeroe; General Billet, war; M. Darlan, justice; Ad miral Bernard, marine; M. Laoombe; - publio works; M. Rambau, pnblio in struction The Old Dominion aeamer Wyanoke, when making for New Port News pier near Norfolk, Va. , struck the prow of the United States steamer Columbia, lying at anohor, and bad a bole ont in the forward part of the starboard side. She sank in sixty feet of water. All the Wyanoke' s passengers and orew were saved, but their baggage, and probably the cargo, was loat. Two fire men were badly scalded. Cripple Creek, Colo., waa again ',' visited by fire, and now from 3,000 to - 4,000 people aro homeless in a city of 1 deaolation, with no homes to offer and no food to aupply the daily wanta. One life waa lost. The business por tion of the oity left standing is less than would oover a block. The resi dence section is oon fined to what were formerly the suburbs. Relief parties are being organized in Denver and Colorado Springa. The battleship Oregon, which waa reoently completed at the Union iron works in San Franoisoo, baa been plaoed in the drydook to be scraped, in preparation for the final test of speed required by the navy department. The Oregon will be the most formidable battle-ship in the American navy when turned over to the government. A apeoial to the Denver Timea from El Paso, Tex. , says the governor of Chihuahua haa sent a regiment of troops to MinaViejo to compel to peons to open the mine and resoue the min ers. He had the polioe gather all the unemployed men in the city streets and maroh them to the mine to work. Of the sixty-one entombed miners fifty were taken out dead. The disaster was caused by the enoroaobing for ore on the pillara supporting the roof. The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has captured and brought into Havana the Amerioan sohooner Competitor, of Key West, loaded with arms and ammuni tion. In oommand of her were Alfredo Larode, Dr. Bedia and three newspaper correspondents, who are held as pirson ers. Some of the filibusters are said to , have suooeeded in jumping overboard Wand swimming ashore. Others who jumped into the sea were drowned. The insurgent general Monson, waa a member of the expedition. i Instructions came from the treasury department ordering the commanders of the revenue onttera of the Behring sea ' patrol fleet, equipping in the Sound, not to take any spirituous liquors. The fleet wai ready to sail when the order were issued and the officers were oom-1 pulled to land their private and mess liquor supply. The captains them selves, while in the North, must live like prohibitionists, as they will not be allowed to have on board the mild est of intoxicating beverages. The following unique challenge has been sent to Colonel Robert G. Inger soil, by Thomas Kenyon, a resident ot Providenoe, R. I.: "I, the undersign ed, challenge Robert G. Ingersoll in a joint debate before three judges and two timekeepers, ten minutes eaoh, for points on his (Ingersoll's) Bible lec tures, in any hall in New York or any large oity, but New York preferred. The one gaining the most points must receive 05 per oont of the net receipts after paying expenses. Thomas Ken yon." Colonel Ingersoll will probably aooopt the challenge. Spanish authorities in New York and Washington have reoently discov ered a conspiracy, which was formed by Cubans, to blow np a Spanish war ship and at the same time intercept a peninsula mail steamer and rob her of a large quantity of gold intended for the government troops on the island. The plot further included the capture ot the seaport town ot Neuvitas, and contemplated certain demonstrations along the coast of the eastern Cuban provinoes, in order to precipitate a rush of troops from the west and effect a weakening of the military trooha across Pinar del Rio J. C. Sommera, a millionaire banker of Keokuk, la., was killed by a train in the union depot at Burlington. The six-story building of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, about (210,000. Columbia university will send a band of naturalists to explore the Puget Sound region. The expedition will set out from New York June 10. The Paria newspapers confirm the rumor that M. Hnbete, French ambas sador to Germany, will at once return to Berlin, to present his letters of re call. Mary, wife of William Shore, leaped from a bridge into Elkhorn river, near Washington, W. Va., fifty feet, to es cape a passing engine. She was res cued but will die. Rain fell for 24 hours in Ocon to, Wis., and all the lowlands are flooded. The oity is neatly inundated and the river roaobed the highest mark that it has for years. Warren Fisher, who came into prominence in 1876 through his con nection with the investigation of charges directed against James G. Blaine, died at bia home in Roxbury, N. Y. - Princess Beatrioe, the youngest daughter of Queen Viotoria, and widow of Prinoe Henry of Battenbnrg, has been appointed governor of the Isle of Wight, the office previously held by her husband. Word has been received in Washing ton by telegraph that the Canadian government has adopted an order in oounoil exempting Amerioan vessels from entry and olearanoe oharges at Canadian porta. A diapaoth from Madrid saya: The Spanish government has declined the pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, on the ground that acceptance would be tantamount to recognizing America's right to interfere. The black plague is still prevalent at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu ropean children have been attaoked by the disease. Japan is taking elaborate precautions t prevent the introduc tion of the plague. An attempt was made to burn An derson, Cal., by saturating a number of buildings with coal oil. The plot was frustrated by the discovery of the fire five minutes after it was started, when it was soon extinguished. An explosion, by whioh 100 persona are believed to have perished, has oc curred at Mioklefield, Yorkshire, Eng land. The explosion took plaoe in a colliery, and twenty injured persona have been rescued from the shaft An "X" ray will kill the bacteria of diphtheria. The eleotrioal department of the university of Missouri, at Co lumbia, announces that, after exten sive experiments, diphtheria germa had been killed by the Roentgen light. Seven hundred men were thrown out of work by t strike of the employes in Sherman & Company's iron mines in Port Henry, N. Y., whose demand for an increase of forty oenta a day waa re fused. The mines were shut down. In Woodland, Cal. , two armed men stood np Jailer Labrie in the jailyard and relieved him of $187 in cash and a watoh ohain. The official had occasion to go into the jailyard for a moment, and left his pistol and hat in the office. M. Conbertin, president of the inter national committee of the Olympio games, writes to the London Times that the games in 1900 will be held in Paria, and for 1904 the committee will ohooBe between New York, Berlin and Stookholm. The little 2-year-old aon of Mr. Ford, a trainman on the Sumpter Valley railroad, Baker City, Or., walked on the traok as the engine and two oars oame along. He waa unobserved and the train pasaed over him. His skull waa badly fraotured, and the ohild will die. William A. Holoomb, one of the best known business men ot the Paoifio ooaat, president of the San Franoisoo Produce and Merchants' Exohange, died at his residence in Oakland. Mr. Holoomb had been ill for some six months with an affection of the kid neys. James Beals, a stove dealer, of Iron- ton, O., shot and fatally wounded his wife. The couple had been out walk ing, and immediately upon their return home he drew a revolver and fired four ahota at hia wife, three of them taking effeot. The deed was actuated by jeal ousy. Beals esoaped. A FATAL EXPLOSION A Large Cincinnati Building Completely Demolished. AT LEAST SIX PERSONS KILLED Accident Waa Uuinl by Blowing Up or a Gaaollue Tank-The Build ing Collapsed. Cincinnati, May 6. This city and vicinity haa been greatly excited over the explosion of a large tank of gaso line, which completely demolished the five-Btory building at 430 and 432 Wal nut street, at 8 o'clock tonight. After the explosion the wildest reports were current as to the loss of lifo. Before midnight it was known that six were killed and eighteen injured, but the work ot removing the debris had pro ceeded so slowly that the general esti mate of the killed and wounded greatly exceeded this number. The building was occupied by Adolph C. Drachs, a saloon-keeper rn the first floor, and by Diehl & Cj. , dealers in fire works, on the upper floors. There were also many roomers in the buildinp. The family of Adolph Drachs suffer ed most severely. Drachs and wife are injured, and the 5-year-old daughter is dead, and the 6-year-old boy is be lieved to be dying. Nolan David, a traveling man for the Columbia Car riage Company, of Hamilton, O., and two others, unidentified, complete the list of those known to be dead. Among tbe missing, who are believed to be in the ruins, are A. R. Frioke, of Nowrood; Joseph Worthner, barkeeper; Louis Fey, wife and baby; also two servant girls in the family of Fey and Draohs. A most touching scene occurred when Fireman John MoCartby found his brother pinned nnder a beam and beg ging the men above him to kill him. MoCartby said there were three other men near him, and they were alive. The most heroic efforts to liberate these sufferers were made. Herman Nolte, jr., was standing in front of an adjoining building wnen struck by debris, and Buffered a broken leg and other injuries. The shook was so terrific that it was felt all over the oity. Not one brick upon another was left in the front and rear walls of the building, while adja cent buildings were badly damaged. The glass was broken out of street oars' that were passing at the time, and one of the oara was badly damaged, but none of the passengers were seriously hurt All tbe horses in the immediate neighborhood broke from their fasten ings and ran away, and there was not only intern excitement, but the greatest oonfusion. The dust and dirt oontinued flying for a long time, so densely that the work of rescuing the victims proceeded with geat difficulty, although tbe po lioe and fire departments rallied hero ically to the wreck. The saloons were said to be quite full ot people. One of the bartenders who was not on duty at the time, and who esoaped, lived in one of the upper flats, and was wild with grief because he knew that his wife and four children were in the ruins. HAMMOND IMPOSED UPON. Be Refused to Take I'art son's Raid. In Jame- New York, May 6. Samuel Lioh teustadter, a man who haa just return ed here from Johannesburg, says: "Tbe Johannesburg reform commit tee met last Christmas day at Ceoil Rhodes' house to receive instructions from him for the movement against the Boers. I was present. Rhodes' in structions to the reformers were that they should maroh into Johannesburg under the British flag and when the town waa oaptured, a triumph of Brit ish arms should be proclaimed. "The reading of the instructions was followed by a silenoe of some min utes. Then Hammond arose and said: " 'Not for all the wealth this land oontains, not if yon were to make me the absolute ruler, would I have a hand in carrying out these instructions. I can pull a trigger to shoot down an oppressor, but I cannot and will not be a party to a revolutionary intrigue. If I am going to, take up arms under any flag, it will be tbe one that is flying today over the ocean nnder tbe banner ot a free people, who believe in revo lution as a remedy for oppression, but who hate, with a Kaffir's hate, the rape of a free people's territory. You oan oouiit me out. ' "The reformers, nearly all of whom are Britons, were thunderstruok. They needed Hammond. After he bad spo ken, they realized that Ceoil Rhodes' order must be reversed. Jameson, however, refused to be put off. He in sisted on carrying out his part of the original programme of oonquest But when he invaded the Transvaal, the UitlanderB, influenced by Hammond, gave him no aid, and the raid faibd miserably. Rhodes and Jameson, being En glishmen, are now enjoying the pow erful protection of the British govern ment, whose agents they were, while Hammond and the other Amerioans are made to pay the penalty of the others' crimes." rerrjr After the Meteorite. Washington, May 6. The secretary ot the navy has granted six months' leave, with permission to go abroad, to Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, the Arotio explorer. Although no expla nation ia furnished of the object ot his leave, it is supposed the offloer is about to go to Greenland, tor the purpose of bringing home tbe largest meteorite in existenoe. whioh he discovered when last in that country. A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS. Young Man Killed That Ha May Not Disgrace Hla Family. New York, May 4. According to the Journal's Paria correspondent, Eugene Vasseuar, a young Frenchman whoa dead body was found in a thioket on the Bois de Viennes, was murdered by bis own father and cousin, the lat ter having been hired to assist in the crime by the former. Vasseuar did not bear a good reputation, and it is claimed that his father wished him dead rather than that be should dis grace the family. Tbe oousin, whose name is Boucher, tells the following story of tbe crime: A lonely spot is the Bois de Viennes was fixed upon for the scene ot the tragedy, and it waa arranged that Boucher should go along a small path with Eugene, while the itther was to bide in a thicket and then spring out on their vicitm. At 8 o'clock the next evening Bouoher persuaded Eugene that he had a job for him at Cravelle, so the couple went down in a boat to Charenton, climbed to the plateau, and as thy passed the fatal spot the father prang out like a tiger and seized his son by the throat - Eugene Bhouted for help, at the same time making a desperate, resistance, and the father, who was becoming black in the face, oalled to Bonoher: "Why dont' you help, you ooward?" Boucher seized the young man by the throat, and was bitten in ; the hand. He then loosened his grip, whereupon the father, with a desperate : effort threw his aon down, and bending over him, strangled him. Aa he pulled the cord whioh they had prepared, Boucher said: "Let him alone; his punishment haa been severe enough." The father re plied: "I believe yon; this time tbe scamp has full measure and running over." Both men are nnder arrest. HOW IT FELT. A Suicide Recorded Hli Dying Sen sations. San Farnoisoo, May 4. An un known man oommitted suioide in Golden Gate park last night, by. drink ing carbolic acid. The strange part of it is that he left a record ot his feelings while the biting fluid was at work upon his vitals. He wrote that lie was "dying beautifully," but that his tak ing off was a pleanst one was made doubtful by the evidences of a final frenzy, furnished by the fragments of the card on whioh other words were written. . In his last moments the dying man had torn it to bits, together with an other on which he had written after taking the poison. When the pieces were adjusted, it waa found that they bore the name ot Desoalso Brothers, wholesale liquor dealers. On one, doubled with the first one on which the man had used his pencil, were the fol lowing words in printed letters: "Drug is working; friends only two one dead. No hope in this world. Wife good, but obstinate. My wife, God bless" Then the writing broke off into few unintelligible words. On the other card appeared the line, also printed: "I am dying beautifluly." In some further writing appeared the words "soul" and "'sleeping." Then the final frenzy had evidently come, and the life that was held valueless had gone. There also lay beside the body a newly laundried and folded apron, whioh might have belonged to a bar keeper. It bore tbe initials "O. W. A." THE OREGON'S TRIAL Speed Test of the Mew Battle Ship Boon to Be Made. Washington, May 4. Instructions were sent forward from the navy de partment today to San Franoisoo for the trial of the battle-ship Oregon. The conditions for the trial will be precisely the same as those in tbe oase of her sister ships, the Indiana and Massachusetts. The trial will take plaoe over a thirty-one knot course in the Santa Barbara ohannel, just out side the old Olympia course. Aa there has been a strong spirti of emulation manifested between the shipbuilders of the Atlanito and Paoifio ooasts, much interest is felt in the outcome cf the Oregon's trial. The California build ers are expressing confidence that she will be able to maeth the 16.2079 knots of the Massachusetts when the trial is run off, whioh will be as soon aa the board oan receive the instrnctions mailed today. LAND OFFICE MATTERS Decisions In Several Washington Cases, Washington, May 4 The secretary of the interior has reversed the deci sion of the general land offloe in the oase of the state of Washington against the Northern Paoifio railroad. The old decision, rendered in Ootober, 1894, held for oanoellation the state's selec tion list No. 2, for agricultural oollege support, on aooonut of oonfliot with the indemnity selections of the road, These selections were made in the North Yakima district. An order was issued on the railroad to revise its lists within six months, so that proper basis will be shown for all lands selected as indemnity, and the road failed , to oomply with it. The land office therefore is held to have erred in its aotion and advised that the state's selections, if otherwise regular and legal, shoud be submitted for ap proval. The fast westbound mail on the Northern Paoifio met an eastbound cat tle train near Livingston, Mont, wreokingboth trains. Engineer Fan ning, of the cattle train, waa killed; Fireman P. MoClelland, was fatally, injured and several were badly hurt. Many passengers jumped. GROWING NORTHWEST Progress and Doings in the Pacific States. CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS from All the Cities and Towns of the Pacific States and Territories Washington. The energy of tramps in Spokane ia now directed by the authorities to the rock pile. The Clallam County Immigration Society has published a neat descrip tive pamphlet The revenue cutter Bear is taking 400 tons of Blue Canyon coal from Lake Whatcom. The Ellensburg creameries are all getting plenty of milk now, and their product ia steadily increasing. Newton Martin haa been sent to the Medical Lake asylum from Spokane. He thought his mission waa to kill off all offioe-holderB. An electrio light plant is being in stalled in the Skamokawa sawmill. The dynamo will have a capacity of thirty aro lights of 2,000 candle-power. A cougar recently went into Robert Wallace's barn, near Mossy Rook, in Lewis county, and carried off a pig. Wallace and two neighbors went after the beast with dogs, and treed and killed it A. J. Thompson had six rollers at work on hia fields, near Medical lake, nearly all of last week. Mr. Thomp son has nearly 600 aores of wheat in, and expects to thresh from 10,000 to 12,000 bushels next fall. It is estimatd that the cost of juries and baliffs for the term of court in Walla Walla just closed will amount to more than $2,100. Most of this was due to the trial of the cases against Reinhold Harraa and Eicbler. The saloon men of Ellensburg want their licenses reduced to $300 and an ordinance passed requiring all saloons to olose at 12 o dock midnight, of each weekday and to remain closed till 6 A. M. , and to remain closed all day Sun day. Only $500 of the $4,000 required is yet to be raised for the Gilmore oream ery at New Wbatcom. Bellingbam bay people will hold $3,000 of the capi tal stock, the other $1,000 to be taken by the people of Wbatcom bounty out Bide the cities. The - Spokane land office officials have rendered a decision in favor of the settlers in the contest of Marion F. Munoey against the Northern Pa oifio Railroad Company. Settlement prior to the selection as indemnity land was the basis of the decision. The trustees of the normal sobool at Ellensburg have elected teaohers and established salaries for the ensuing year as follows : Professsor Getz, $2,160; Professor Morgan, $1,200; ProfeBsor Mahan, $1,200; Miss Marquis, $1,200; Miss Cartwright, $900; Miss Ayres, $800; Miss Turner, $800; Miss Stew ard, $800. It is an odd ooinoidenoe that Oregon and Washington should each have vacancy in the offioe of pilot commis sioner to be filled at the same time, The Washington vaoanoy was occa sioned by the resignation of Captain John Barenson, who is succeeded on the Puget Sound board by Captain F, Al. Bartlett The Schlotfeldt packing establish ment, in Ellensburg, has been rebuilt. and is now in running order, turning out hams, baoon, etc. Mr. Sohlotfeldt proposes, to take no further chanoe on the plant, whioh waa twice destroyed by fire, and has a watchman on the plaoe all the time. In addition to this he is importing two does to assist in the work. The specifications of the gasoline lannoh that is to carry summer travel between Astoria and Ilwaoo, connect Ing with Columbia river boats, have been enlarged. The boat is to have two engines of 20-horsepower each, in stead of 15, and her forward part will be built for trucking baggage, giving, it is thought, first-class servioe. Cap tain U. B. Soott will superintend the construction. i The Anderson Woodenware Com pany, ot faooma, has reoeiveq an or der from a Kansas City packing-house for 200 carloads of ware, to be mann faotured from woods native to Wash ington. Several daya ago the oom pany received orders from Kansas City, Omaha and other central Eastern state paoking-houses for woodenware, aggregating 200 carloads. The last order swells the list to 400 carloads. George Craig and Fred Harris, con victed of counterfeiting, were sen tenced at Spokane by Judge Hanford to ten years eaoh, in the United States penitentiary on McNeill's island, Pu get Sound. They were engaged in the manufacture of half dollars, in a small building near the Spokane depot, where they had a good outfit and made an excellent imitation. Several aooom plioes in diposing of the ware were spotted by the police, but as soon aa the prinoipala were arreated they fled. Craig and Harris were taken to the island last week. Oregon. A pair of new rollers were put in at the Pendleton flouring mills last week. A plan is on foot for the reorganiza tion of the carriage faotory at Cor valliB. The Dufur aohool will hold its an nual May-day pionio on Friday, May 22, at the baseball grounds, just above Dufur. The Wilson river road, from Tills mook to Forest Grove, will soon traveled again, and there is talk of a stage line being put on. Joseph Parr was sentenced to one and one- half years in the penitentiary, by Judge Lowell, at Pendleton for as sault with a deadly weapon. One of tbe examiners of the oivil ser vioe commission was in Ashland last week superintending the examination of applicants for the railway mail ser vioe and for teachers at the Indian school. About 100 head of cattle and 1,000 hogs are being fed at the Grant distil lery. There are 600 hoga in the fat tening pens, and a like number in out side lots. Tbe company turns out about 500 head f fat hoga every sixty days. April 16 a new 20-stamp mill was put in at the Bonanza mine, in Baker county, and April 25 tbe mill waa closed down for the first clean-up. The result of tbe ran was $10,000 in bul lion, that was taken to Baker City. The recent cold weather has retarded sheepsh earing and has delayed tbe Pen dleton scouring mills from starting up as soon as waa expeoted, aa the man agement at the mills has not as large a stock of wool on band to begin with as it wishes. Last week Mrs. R. K Springer was badly burned at Weston. She was about to retire when the lamp that was upon the table by the bedside exploded setting fire to her clothing. She was badly but not fatally burned about the breast and face. Perhaps the last lot of dried prunes from last season's crop went out of Benton county last week. The ship ment contained 4,000 pounds, and went to the San Francisco market. The shippers were paid an advance of 8 cents per pound. School Superintendent Newbury, of Jackson county, last week made the regular semi-annual apportionment of the school funds, amounting in the aggregate to $12,435.40, or a per cap ita of $1.65 and $50 to each diatriot, as provided by law. Thiee carloads of balm lumber and two of hard wood, destined for San Franoisoo market, were shipped by the Corvallis Lumber Company, over the Oregon Central & Eastern last week. Fom oarloads of ash and maple will follow the shipment soon. J. H. Law, a detective, baa gone to Heppner to look for Wolf, who ia al leged to have killed his sweetheart three years aog, while she was going to ohucrh at Mount Tabor. The shot was instantly fatal, won escaped, and there is a reward of $1,000 for his capture. .:.- Idaho. Five new cases ot scarlet fever are reported at Moscow. Active measures are being taken to prevent an epidemic. Mail messenger servioe baa ben dis oontinued on the route in Idaho, be tween Osbnrn postoffloe, in Shoshone county, and the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway depot The Lew is ton Water & Fire Com pany is settling Lewiston Flat, which they are developing by an extensive ir rigation system, on a plan that is co operative in its nature. A creamery and a cannery are features of the scheme. At no distant date the New Colum bia Gold Mining Company operating in the Yelbw Jacket mining district. will be absorbed by the new company organized for that purpose and known as the Idaho Chemical Gold Mining Company. Colonel W. H. Dewey is expected to arirve from Pittsburg in about ten days, and shortly thereafter aotive work will be commenced on the oon struotion of the $100,000 twenty-stamp quarts mill his company will , erect at Booneville to work the ore from the rioh Booneville, Florida Hill, Seventy nine and Mother Lode mines. From all indications this year will be an aotive one in mining in Custer county, says the Challis Silver Messen ger. Our mines are not boomed to any great extent on the outside; they do not require it, as they show for them selves. Just how much work will be done on them this year depends greatly on the price of lead and silver. Montana. It ia now definitely known that Phil lipsburg will have a oustom smelter. Thia ia badly needed for that seotion as it is a well-known faot that even had the ores of the great Granite Mountain mine been treated by smelting the nrofits would have been greatly in creased. The oopper market is quite satisfao torv to all concerned. With the com ing spring it is thought that consum ers will be more aotive buyers, as their stocks on hand are rather low. The market is in a strong position, statist! oally speaking, and should advance on any inorease in the demand. Dealers are oonfident that a better inquiry about due and express a belief that the next movement will be in the direction of higher prices. Tbe Butte mining world says Railroad building in Montana and Ida ho is quite satisfactory in two or three instances. Work will be begun at once on a road from Nampa, Idaho, to the Snake river. This road will be an out' let for the great gold mines in the Owyhee mountains. The road now under construction by Mr. Hammond of Missoula, from a point where the Northern Paoifio crosses the Columbia river ot Astoira, Or., is expeoted to be oompleted by June 1. We are assured that the Castle road from Helena will reach Castle by June . 1. This road will be about seventy miles in length and will rehabitate the deserted camp. It will furnish an ontlet for a rioh mineral district. It is said that by the aid of Roent- b gen's X ray one oan sea ths heart beat HE NATIONAL CAPITAL Daily Proceedings in Senate and House. IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED Substance of the Measures Being Con sidered by the Fifty-Fourth Session Senate. Washington, May 2. The senate ' spent another day on the naval appro priation bill without completing it Gorman further opposed the item of four battleships and expressed the opin ion that the appropriationa already" made would consume the balance in the treasury. A determination of the number of battleships has not yet been reached. Chandler has proposed sub stituting thirty large and fast torpedo gunboats for two of the battle-ships. White spoke of the need of ooast de- fenses before further naval vessels were built, and Allen made a speech of over three hours arraigning the two old parties. Wasbinton, May 4 The debate in the senate today waa of a dramatio and sensational oharaoter, recalling the famous Ingalls-Voorhees contest of some years ago. Senator Tillman, South Carolina, again brought his unique personality into the debate, his speech being the first of any length since his memorable maiden effort at tacking publio officials high and low. While he spoke today, the silver pitch fork reoently presented to him -in the West was conspicuously displayed on his scarf. The senator used the blunt words characteristic of his utterances, arraiging the presidnet and cabinet officers with nnsparing criticism and personal invective. He also addressed himself personally to Hill and Sher man, and drew from the former sharp rejoinders, while Sherman declined to be brought into a controversy with the South Carolina senator. . Washington, May 6. Senator Teller today, from the committee on forest reservations, reported favorably a bill for the protection of the publio forest reservations. The bill provides that no publio forest reservation shall be established except to improve and pro tect the forest within the reservation, for the purpose of securing favor able conditions of water flow and to insure a continued supply of timber for the people of . the states wherein such forest reservations are located. General rules are laid down for the projection and government of such res ervations, and the bill gives to states wherein such forest reservations are situated oivil and oriminal jurisdiction over persons within such reservations. Hons. Washington, May 2. The debate on the bankruptcy bill was resumed today. The speakers were Daniels, Ray and Culberson, in support of the bill; Strode, Terry and Bailey, in favor of a voluntary system, and Griffith, De Armond, Bell and Tracey against any bankruptcy law. De Armond, who opened the debate argued that the states had ample legislation to enfocre the collection of debt. If a bankruptcy law was passed, he thought it should have only the voluntary feature for the,, protection of the insolvent debtor. Be ' oharged that the pending measure had been prepared by the agents of the oreditorclass. Bell opposed tbe pass age of any bankruptcy bill, and Barton advocated the measure.. The latter de- ' sired particularly the technical pro cedure under the terms of the bill. Washington, May 4. The honse again devoted tbe major portion of the day to debate on the bankruptcy bill. Several amendments were offered, but none were adopted. A bill to provife for a delegate in oongress from the ter ritory of Alaska was defeated, 44 to 60. Scranton oalled up the bill and spoke of the development of tbe Alaska min ing and fishing industries and the in orease of population in the. last fifteen years. Its vast area rendered it proper and neoesBary that it should have si well-informed representative in the house. There were over 10,000 white Americans in Alaska. Washington, May 6. The first skir mish over the senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill, reduoing the number of battle-ships provided for in that bill from four to two, ooonrred in .., the house today, when Boutelle, chair man of the naval committee, moved to nonconour in all the senate amend ments and requested a conference. Boutelle undertook to chastise some of the senators for their inconsistency. :; He referred to the war scares of the ' past, and the bellicose resolutions in troduced in the senate, and .then sar castically contrasted the war: talk of some of the senators with , their voting to rednoe the number oT battle-ships provided for in tha'btllT"" " 1 v. :;.n , . . . , Cruelty of. Mastre. Key West, May ' 6. A passenger from Cuba reports that Candido Mas toe, lieutenant-colonel: of : the looal guerillas of Cruoes. Ceinfuegos, has been shot by order of Captain Alba, of the Spanish forces. ' This passenger al leges that he was in Cruoes and saw the dead body. He also reports thai there were some appalling stories in oiroulation as to the oruelty ot Mastre. ue is alleged to have killed over 160 peaceful peasants. This, it is said, oame to the knowledge of the govern ment through his killing of the cousin of the unole of General Snares Valdcs. The people of Cruoes are reported to have been terrorised by the presenos of Mastre and Alba. --Cyclists should see that thtir shot laces are fastened before mounting machine; for as in skating, a loess laos may oauss a bad fall. :v: Us-. -ii -n